Random Rants XLVII: I don't like food anymore!

[hobbsyoyo]

It seems to be useful for C. difficile infections, but that is not my problem. I am not certain how it would help me in my situation.

I'm just saying ask your doctor is all as it *may* have some benefit.

 

[Oruc]

Co-op bank is struggling and I have two years worth of wages in an account that you cannot touch for a year. That money is my ticket out of this dump, if it goes under i'm stuck.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Co-op bank is struggling and I have two years worth of wages in an account that you cannot touch for a year. That money is my ticket out of this dump, if it goes under i'm stuck.

Dude, that really sucks. I hope it all works out for you.

 

[The_J]

*ugh* that really sounds terrible :/.



Own rant:
*grmpf*
I got 2 students for supervision in an university course (end of the second week now).
Was not really my decision, the Prof decided I have to.
So I had to make up a project.
Since it was not clear what the student's exact abilities are (mixed pool), I set up a project, which they could do even without any specific abilities (nearly), and some time buffer for me, to prepare some of the stuff, in case there's really nothing available.
So good, so fine.

Got 1 student, who had all necessary abilities. She said she can do more. Okay, my colleague had another project, which he wanted to have done. Sounded good. The second student also opted in into this more difficult task.

Turns out the second one doesn't have a clue about anything.
If I ask you if you can program, and you cannot really do that, then don't say you can, and don't opt into a project, which requires more programming, if you have a project which barely requires any programming .

End result:
Instead of 1 project to supervise I have now 2. Both of them I don't want. Double time supervising, since they are totally different.
The second project I actually first had to read into, so wasted time. Not considering that I had to make up the plan for something, about which I don't really have any knowledge.
The second student has now 5 weeks instead of 7 weeks to do the project.
And I have to go on a Saturday to work, to prepare some stuff, so that he can do something on Monday. No, wasting the Monday is not an option, they have to give a presentation EVERY Friday. ****, about what?
(and this is at least the second round of this course, so if the Prof. wanted he could have changed that in the last round; so he obviously doesn't; WHY?!?)

Why the hell did he not just say nothing at the beginning? That was perfectly set up (okay, not really, but at least there was a plan), WHY!?!

Great, Saturday in the lab. How good that I didn't have a plan for tomorrow (at least not for noon/afternoon).

 

[Takhisis]

RANT


Missile launches in my continent!

I'm not a spelling or grammar Nazi when I can't annoy people on the internet anonymously.

I am a Grammar Nazi who makes mistakes sometimes, which can cause people to get annoyed and play the card back at me irl. A friend of mine once told me she would friggin correct me every single time I made a mistake until the year was over.

I should indict you into the order of the Knights of Takhisis.

They most probably have found what is wrong with me, but was is wrong is extremely wrong. The basic way of putting this is that my gut flora is massively out of balance. the good bacteria that is helpful for digestion are extremely low and the bad bacteria are extremely high. So bad is the situation that my doctor hasn't seen such extreme level before. The good news is that this sort of imbalance explains perfectly why I have been so sick. But I am thinking that there is still a nasty surprise somewhere yet to be found. The fact that I have been so sick is rather troubling since the doctor is unsure exactly how it became so bad. If my thinking is right, then there is still more to be found. Also the problem is that with such an extreme case of imbalance it is going to take about 6 months to get better. Now you think your life sucks?

I tell you, man, the real deal's to be reconstructed as a cyborg.

Co-op bank is struggling and I have two years worth of wages in an account that you cannot touch for a year. That money is my ticket out of this dump, if it goes under i'm stuck.

Can we just storm the place?

 

[Phrossack]

I should indict you into the order of the Knights of Takhisis.

You mean "induct".

 

[Takhisis]

No, no, indict. And then confirm condemn them.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Leave it to Tak to turn grammar nazism on its head. What a cool, funny guy.

Actually, most of you are cool, funny guys. Can we all make a CFC fraternity?

 

[Takhisis]

CFC is a fraternity.

 

[madviking]

i'll bring the natty

 

[choxorn]

CFC is a fraternity.

False. Fraternities need Greek Letters, and the Greek Alphabet contains no C's or F's.

I guess you could get the closest possible things with the same pronunciation (S and PH), which would make us Sigma Phi Sigma.

 

[madviking]

i'd go with kappa phi kappa

 

[choxorn]

But the C's are both pronounced like S's. Kappa would be silly!

 

[madviking]

well there were no c's to begin with in latin.

kurrikulum, kondiment, kajun

 

[MagisterCultuum]

Latin originally has a letter C which made the G sound, as it was based on the letter Gamma. It gradually came to be pronounced like a K instead, and the letter G (C cum linea) was added to the alphabet (replacing Zeta, which was never used in native Latin words but would later be added back to the end of the alphabet once more foreign words had been borrowed) to represent its older pronunciation. (The letter K was rarely used, pretty much only in words that started in Ka and even then it was often just a more exotic looking alternative to C.) Later on, the C was usually palatalized like a Ch in most contexts in Vulgar Latin. It is however never appropriate for a C to make the S sound in Latin.


All three words in Civilization Fanatics Center are derived from Latin, and every C the words contain would be pronounced hard in Latin.

 

[Takhisis]

CFC is obviously Lunate Sigma, Digamma, Lunate Sigma.

Ϲ
Ϝ
Ϲ

ϹϜϹ

 

[madviking]

nope.

 

[choxorn]

Latin originally has a letter C which made the G sound, as it was based on the letter Gamma. It gradually came to be pronounced like a K instead, and the letter G (C cum linea) was added to the alphabet (replacing Zeta, which was never used in native Latin words but would later be added back to the end of the alphabet once more foreign words had been borrowed) to represent its older pronunciation. (The letter K was rarely used, pretty much only in words that started in Ka and even then it was often just a more exotic looking alternative to C.) Later on, the C was usually palatalized like a Ch in most contexts in Vulgar Latin. It is however never appropriate for a C to make the S sound in Latin.


All three words in Civilization Fanatics Center are derived from Latin, and every C the words contain would be pronounced hard in Latin.

What, "Civil" is "Kivil" in Latin? That just sounds so... odd.

 

[madviking]

blame the french.

 

[Takhisis]

kiwil IIRC, Mr. choxorn.